Health
Shriners Hospitals for Children have called on the family of Alissa Perkins to be ambassadors for the 22-hospital system, which treats all children regardless of their ability to pay.
Remember sucking candy out of a plastic neck? Pez Dispensers, they call them. Flip back the noggin of Bugs Bunny or the Tasmanian Devil and extract a tangy little pellet. Kids love ’em. Adults, too — now dispensing Prozac, Paxil, Abilify, Wellbutrin, Lexapro and Zoloft.
The first person to contract the potentially deadly West Nile virus in Nevada this year is an 84-year-old Clark County man, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
You’ve heard poets talk about how the eyes are windows to the soul? Let Las Vegas dentist Dr. Peter Balle offer a less poetic but eminently more practical observation.
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Many breast cancer survivors would tell you that the day they were diagnosed was the hardest day of their lives. For Brandi Ellis, a Las Vegas mother of three diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma in May 2020, the first thing she did was walk downstairs to tell her family — her “first line of defense,” as she calls them.